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BANKRUPTCY ACT 1966 - SECT 159 Vacancy in office of trustee

BANKRUPTCY ACT 1966 - SECT 159

Vacancy in office of trustee

  (1)   The creditors may, at a meeting of the creditors, fill any vacancy in the office of trustee.

  (2)   An Official Receiver shall, on the requisition of a creditor, summon a meeting of creditors for the purpose of filling such a vacancy.

  (3)   For the purposes of this section, an office of trustee shall be deemed to be vacant notwithstanding that it is for the time being filled by the Official Trustee by reason of the operation of section   160.

  (4)   The provisions of sections   157 and 158 apply, so far as they are capable of application, to and in relation to the appointment of a new trustee under this section.